Coin-operated machine.



PATENTED NOV. 24, 1903. H. S. JARBOE & vP. KELLER. COIN OPERATED MACHINE;

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 28, 1901.

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Patented November 24, 1903.

NTTE STATES PATENT Tricia.

HARRY .S. JARBOE, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, AND PHILIP KELLER, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

COlN -OPERATED MACHINE- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,921, dated November 24, 1903.

Application filed September 28, 1901. Serial No. 76,900. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HARRY S. JARBOE, residing at Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, and PHILIP KELLER, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of ldassachusetts,citizens of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coin-Operated Machines, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to coin-operated machines, the object in view being to provide a machine especially adapted for the sale of small single articles, such as cigars, the machine having combined therewith indicating devices in duplicate for the purpose of displaying simultaneously to the customer or purchaser and the salesman the number or nature of the article or articles purchased. The coin-operated mechanism is of such nature that it may be actuated by coins of difierent denominations, sizes, and weights, which may be easily and quickly removed by the salesman as soon as the-indicating devices have performed their work and prior to the delivery of the purchased article or articles to the customer.

With the above and other objects in view, the nature of which will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts,as hereinafter fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a coin-operated machine constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section through themachine. Fig. 4; is a horizontal section taken in line with the arbor of the indicating-hands or on the line 4C a of Fig. 2.

Like reference-letters designate corresponding parts in all figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a suitable supporting-base provided with suitable means for anchoring or fastening the same to a table, counter, or other support, such means being shown for convenience as consisting of eyes A, adapted to receive screws A which pass therethrough into the table or support, as shown in Fig. 1. Ex-

being graduated andalso provided with radially-disposed marks or large graduations, which may be variously colored, if desired. The rear side of the body or frame is also provided with a circular recess D, which is rabbeted, as shown at d, to form a seat. or rest for a second dial, 0', corresponding in all par ticulars with the dial 0, hereinabove referred to. When the dial 0 is placed in position so as to rest against the shoulder formed by the rabbet d, a space is left behind the dial 0 or between said dial and the 'solid or imperforate portion 61 of the frame or body of the machine.

A coin chute or channel E is arranged at the top of the frame, opening at the extreme upper central portion thereof and extending from thence downward and communicating with the space d, said coin chute or channel E being enlarged or flared, as shown at E, where it communicates with the space 01.

Extending downward from the bottom of the space (1 is another coin chute or passage, F, the upper end portion F thereof being flared, as shown, to facilitate the reception of coins therein. The two passages E and F are arranged diametrically opposite in vertical alinement with each other, while beneath the discharge end of the passage F the base A and stand or pedestal B are hollowed. out or recessed, as shown at H, to form a coin-receiving pocket. At the front of the machine the coin-receiving pocket is covered by means of aplate or block I. At the back said recess or pocket is left exposed, as shown in Fig. 3, and the pocket H extends back of the plane of the pedestal or, stand, so as to enable the salesman to extract the coins as fast as they are deposited therein.

Journaled centrally of the frame and dials O and C is an arbor K, provided at or near its opposite ends with indicating hands or pointers L and L, rigidly attached thereto. These hands or pointers travel over the faces of their respective dials at the front and rear of the machine, and being set exactly in line with each other theyindicate the same graduations or marks on the dial to both the salesman and purchaser.

Mounted fast on the arbor and within the space 01 is a coin-operated wheel or disk M, said disk being slightly less in thickness than the width of the space 01, so as to revolve freely. The wheel or disk M is provided with a series of laterally-projecting arms or spokes M, which reach nearly to the outer wallor periphery of the recess and have their ends reversely beveled or tapered and pointed, so that a coin placed in the machine must necessarily pass to one side or the other of the uppermost arm or spoke. The said arms or spokes serve as pockets or rests for the coins fed to the machine, and the weight of the coin serves to impart rotary motion to the wheel or disk M and at the same time to the indicating hands or pointers, it being immaterial in which direction the wheel is actuated by the coin. When the coin reaches the lowermost point of the space cl, it enters the base through the channel F and drops into the coin-pocket H. The disk, however, will continue to rotate after being relieved of the weight of the coin, and that graduation on the dial at which the pointer finally stops will indicate to the salesman the character of. the article to be delivered to the purchaser.. The circular recesses at the front and back of the machine are covered by means of glass panels or plates N, held in place by some such means as beading-strips 0, said plates serving to protect the operative parts of the mechanism and prevent unauthorized tampering therewith.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the space (1, in which the wheel M revolves under the influence of the coins, comprises for one of its side wheels the dial 0 and for its other or opposite and inner side wall the solid central portion d of the frame or body of the machine. The coins are thus caught between the adjacent arms or spokes of the wheel and are confined between the front and rear walls of the space cl, one of said Walls consisting of the dial 0. By removing said dial 0 access can be had immediately to the wheelM, so as to free the same in case said wheel becomes jammed or in case the coins become wedged or congested in the space d by reason of too many coins being deposited in the machine at one time. In restoring the dial 0 to its place it comes in contact with the shoulders d, thus preventing the dial from being pushed too far inward, so as to interfere with the operation of the coinactuated wheel.

Having thus described the invention, we claim as new I In a coin-operated device, the combination of a base provided with a coin-pocket, a stand or pedestal thereon provided with a rabbeted circular recess, a dial seated in said rabbeted recess and forming one of the side walls of the wheel-cavity, a wheel rotatably mounted in said cavity and having reversely beveled and pointed arms with intervening open-sided spaces formingcoin-pockets,the sides of which are formed by the stationary opposite walls of the cavity in which the wheel works, an arbor for said Wheel, dials at opposite sides of said wheel, and pointers on said arbor movable over the faces of the dials, the machinefraine being provided with coin-passages leading to the wheel and from the wheel to the coin-pocket in the base, substantially as described.

HARRY S. JARBOE. PHILIP KELLER.

Witnesses as to the signature of Harry S. Jarboe:

M. IRA HoAe, CHAs. E. I-IoAe. WVitnesses as to the signature of Philip Keller: 7

CHAS. D. Soorr, GEO. P. SNYDER. 

